Because who doesn't like seeing the greatest and probably most innovative bjj player of his generation
You can build a complete game just by watching Marcello roll, pick a different year of his game early years x guard and rear naked chokes, or here a bit later you see his guillotine game beautiful to watch so many details you can take with you
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Seriously he must be the most innovative bjj guy of the past decade, he made the X guard popular, then gave us single X, a master of taking the back and using the legs to create a 2 on 1 for the choke. Probably the greatest choke artist in bjj, his rear naked and north south chokes are legendary and they even named a guillotine after him.
Who's the greatest BJJ guy/girl, in terms of MMA record? Jacare? Maia? Gunnar was doing well, but not so much recently,
Hard onefor me, jacare tends to use his hands as much as his bjj, Maia always uses his bjj Gunnar honestly doesn't come into the picture for me his bjj wasn't at the same level . My bet is Bibiano Fernandes multiple world bjj champ and mma mmma belt holder in both dream and FC one
Roger is the greatest to me, because he set his style with super basic BJJ and cross collar chokes world class guys from Mount like they're white belts. I can't even do it to actual white belts. Love Marcelo too though.
They are both great fighters but the middle weight division was always so stacked compared to the heavyweight so to dominate that division is always impressive And it's the way his game evolved and was stolen by everyone that impressed me. He basically made the arm drag, back pack, x guard, single X arm trapped rear naked choke, north south choke and high elbow guillotine popular. Although Rogers run was outstanding and subbing everyone at the adcc one year was something to see. Xande also makes a strong case to be the greatest of all time as well. Having a guard only passed twice in all competitions is just amazing
Two master classes going on here Xandes is on guard recovery and retention Marcello's is on basically being a back pack lol One other reason I love Marcello is at the end the respect he had for xande is easy to see
Yep Xande seems a class act as well, most top bjj guys do, with a couple of well known exceptions lol